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Okay, now we will take public comment on any non-agenda items. Um so if you're here to speak to anything that's not on the agenda, now's your time. Before I ask though, we do request that when you address the planning commission Comments are not directed personally against the Commission member or team member, but rather directed at the issues. This provides mutual respect between the Commission members and the public. Is there anyone in the audience here to Talk on public items that are not on the
agenda.
If if I may, we have several people signed up for general public comment. We do have a list if you don't mind. Oh perfect. Um I will note before we go, we don't have anybody signed up on WebEx for general public comment or any of the items today on the agenda. The first name, I believe, on the list is Amy Polchak. And forgive me if I say it wrong.
Okay. Can when you come to the uh when you come to the podium please um state your name and address and then I do need to if you plan on giving any testimony today, if you can please um stand and raise your right hand so you can be sworn.
Do you swear in order to testimony you're about to give is the truth, so help you out?
Okay. Good afternoon. I'm here today to speak on the per oh, I'm sorry. Amy Pultoric, [address removed]. I'm here today to speak on the purpose and intent of the comprehensive plan for the Connected City. My concerns are that within the Connected City Comprehensive Plan Amendment, certain policies are not being met within the special planning area, specifically the community hub zone. This zone intends to create a unique centralized education, recreation, and open
space system that is well connected to each special planning area zone and serves and complements the entire connected city development. The community hub zone shall be characterized by a potential mix of residential, educational, recreational, civic, cultural, and resort type uses centered on a central amenity, King Lake. A few of the planning principles for the connected city are
One, a connected city promotes a healthy lifestyle through planning decisions that support physical activity and movement, as well as access to fresh foods. The connected city must provide infrastructure that supports wellness as part of the daily routine. This includes opportunities for and access to walking and biking to local commercial areas, parks and recreational uses, schools and civic institutions, fresh local grown produce, and clean water and air. Parks
that provide physical space and associated public infrastructure to accommodate a range of passive and active physical activities should be part of these communities. Policy land use and and design 4.16 states integrate view corridors, natural habitats, and natural open space systems into the design of the multipurpose paths, multipurpose trails, urban plazas, parks, playgrounds, community centers, and
educational, entertainment and cultural buildings. This policy aims at using design strategies to not just protect nature, but also integrate it into the built environment so that it becomes an integral part of the everyday live and work experience within the connected city. Policy Land Use and Design 4.18 enact Land Development Code that allow and encourage land uses, activities, and infrastructure to increase access to healthy
food and water within the connected city special planning area zones. The land uses and design of the built environment should be such that it provides multiple options for eating healthy nutritious food. This could be achieved by incorporating within the connected city overlay community gardens, rooftop greenhouses or gardens, on-site gardening, corner grocery stores, edible landscaping, farmers market and other strategies that are dedicated to producing
healthy local food options.
The second one is to create authentic social gathering spaces. Providing locations for social interactions is essential to creating vibrant communities. It's well documented that social networking is a key factor in the success of innovation districts. These spaces can take form in parks, coffee houses, libraries, and other civic spaces. Farmers markets, community gardens, and so forth. A connected city must provide a series of social gathering opportunities by encouraging
uses that attract people. Policy LUD one point two zero creates authentic social gathering spaces that are well integrated into neighborhoods and employment areas strategically local as Comfortable walking distances distances are connected through safe and comfortable pedestrian, bicycle, and neighborhood vehicle links are um easily accessible by people for deferring abilities. And I have a little bit more, but I can have someone else.
Yeah, if you can have somebody else who 'cause we do need to limit people to three minutes. Thank you.
Thank you.
I believe the next person on our list is Jennifer.
Sorry,
Deborah.
Yeah, that's right. Yes, that's right.
All right. Hi, I am Jennifer McLeod. I live at [address removed] and I'm just continuing where Amy left off. Um Policy 4.21, develop mixed-use areas that employ a combination of land use and design strategies to create vibrant, attractive destinations that provide a variety of social gathering spaces. Providing locations for social interaction is essential to creating vibrant communities. These mixed-use
areas could include a combination of squares, parks, plazas, tot lots, playgrounds, fresh fruit outlets, cr excuse me, cafes, or other shopping or entertainment-based uses that bring people together. It is well documented that social networking is a key factor in the success of innovation districts, compact, transit-accessible, technically wired, mixed-use communities that promote innovative thought and economic social development. Promote planning decisions that protect the natural environment.
Not only should development plans be sensitive to the county's natural resources and boundaries, but the county should encourage the use of low-impact development techniques to address stormwater runoff and water quality. Implementing these initiatives would offer a wonderful opportunity for our children and neighbors to come together as a community, fostering and supporting an authentic, healthy lifestyle. Thank you for your time and consideration today.
Thank you.
Sorry, the second Jennifer.
Hi, Jennifer McCarthy, [address removed]. So I guess I'd like to discuss how the current residents of the connected city have been treated the last ten years. So we've been coming to these meetings for ten years. I've spoken to you, you probably maybe recognize me. I don't know. I got run off the road my road yesterday. My private Non-county maintained road because there's construction traffic coming from Marata. Nobody will take this approach and and nobody will help stop it. It's a single-lane road. Nobody helps
try to keep traffic off of it. And as this area continues to grow. uh it's not safe for me to leave my house. So one issue there is that the development is not keeping up with the infrastructure. So you guys are gonna build a new Kenton Road. Okay great. Well that was approved two years ago. There's no new Kenton Road. Everybody's continuing to cut to cut up our road. When we were talking with commissioners and ten years ago with what was it, Ted, Tim, one of the tees when they were when
this in Pasadena Hills was getting, they're like, you know, there's gonna be step-ups. If you guys decide that you're gonna stay, great. We want properties like yours. We won't put things directly next to you that are gonna impact you. You're not gonna be next to townhomes, you're not gonna be next to four-story apartments. But guess what? Is getting approved next to our properties. So we can't build within 20 feet of our property line, but you guys can take 150 acres directly next to us and then they can build up to five feet. So things like that shouldn't be happening. There should
be some sort of step up in In the density, and I just don't think that that's a that's been that's happened. So you know, we want to be good neighbors. The developers say we they want to be good neighbors to us. They have not been. Nobody has all you're seeing is unfortunately more for sale signs. Then you have people that work for the county, a director going on CBS News and saying anybody that lives in the connected city that's not part of a development should just. plan to pack up and move. So CBS News a year ago. Never I
I wrote email after email to him. He never responded back to me because I wanted to speak about his public comment. Um so it This is, you know, A Amy and the other Jennifer, you know, spoke about what the connected city should have been, and that's a vision, and what is there is not. If you guys if if you not you guys, but if everything is com is the the last parcels, if these are all approved, there's no way. Where are we putting the libraries? Where are you putting the parks? Where are you putting these open spaces? It was the only thing I was maybe
kind of excited about, right? Like my six-year-old might be able to have friends in the neighborhood that she because there's some things clown going close, but you can't. Nothing's accessible. Park. Wesley Chapel District, the Board of one meeting the Board of County Commissioners said, hey, the park, Wesley Chapel District Park. You can't get there on golf carts. People try, and if you've driven down that area, it's incredibly dangerous. So why not have a park in that area to accommodate these people? Um and and everybody. I'm I mean, so again, I think the vision needs
to be looked at. It hasn't been, it's it's not what is there. Um so that's that's that's my point, is that I I think this needs to be paused until this is reviewed and I think any anybody looking to develop in this area should be not just responsible for their parcel, but including a spec on how this fits into the big picture. So thank you for your time.
Thank you.
The next person on the list is David Torino.
My name's David Torino. I live at [address removed]. I've got a problem with your water. I've had a problem with your water ever since you started developing across the lake. My property's been flooded. My property's three foot above high water mark right now. My dock has been flooded and destroyed. You guys told me? Was it you guys but I was told by some of the the commissioners I won't mention their names because you don't want me to mention names but I was talking to two of 'em. I wouldn't get a drop of water
on my property. I didn't get a drop. I got feet of water. Fink. I haven't been able to get back to the lake back there and that's what I moved there for. I moved there and I bought the land in 85. I moved there in ninety five. I built a A beautiful home that I was going to retire and die in. 'Cause I love the fish. That's what I built for. I haven't seen that lake in eight years. Eight years of my life is gone. I love
the fish, gentlemen, and I haven't been able to, and that's not right. You guys told me that I wouldn't see a drop of water one comes out there and say, Man, somebody dropped the ball. That's not helping me. Not helping me at all! I want to get back there.
That's my curry.
Thank you.
The next one on our list is Chris Torino.
Chris Trinal, [address removed]. I got much more to say to what he did, except that the water went under my home this time. I went through two hurricanes. The water didn't even come up on my property hardly. It was gone within two, three weeks. We don't have two, three weeks no more. We go months. We used to mow to the lake. Ain't mowed to the lake in eight,
nine years now.
Yeah. I don't know what you you know, everybody says wo you know, they come out and look at it and say, Well, you got a problem, that's for sure, but They don't do nothing. Yeah, it keeps getting worse, not better. You keep building and it gets worse. That's about all I can say to add to him. Thank you.
Thank you.
The next one on the list is Steve Stanley.
Is
that you? Oh, you're not for general public comment, you're for C S. Okay. So the next one on the list is Nancy Hazelwood.
Nancy Hazewood, three four, one, one, oh, a nice place. That came up pretty fast. Um I I've got a Lutany of things. Uh first off they're deciding to put a well field in the northeast protected area and we don't need it because we're all in well and septic and we have large lots that help keep us rural and protected. So we are not liking that. And now we're hearing they might want to put a wastewater treatment plant there
too. And it wouldn't be for us, it'd be for developing northeast protected area, which it That's not what we bargained for when we exchanged it for Pasadena Hills. Um, I was wondering why the board continues to listen to the same people who represent development communities when they have failed over and over again to follow through with what they have promised to do on their projects. and has been agreed on and is in
the application by the board
And then it doesn't follow through. Something else happens. Um, maybe it's where a road was supposed to be not put and they came back and decided to put it there again, even though it been voted so that the citizens wouldn't have to have their little community with a lot of traffic. This reflects back on the boards. Y'all said that this was gonna be this way and now
it's not. If you want your word to stand for something, this needs to be remedied somehow. Uh, I have a couple of other short things. I would respect s respectfully ask probably planning for the tenth time over the last fifteen years For the planning staff to work on conflicted zoning in the Northeaster protected area. We're running into it again. And
So One of them is that things are coming up in the rural area plan like employment centers and there's no conditions put on it. It's a conflict zoning within Northeast Rural and has the capacity to Again, make high density in northeast rural and more sprawl. We don't have it yet. We're probably the one place that doesn't. Um one more here.
No po way. Y'all are lucky. Thank you.
Thank you, Nancy. So the next one on our list for general public comment is Phil Singletary tire.
My name is Philip Singletary. Live at [address removed]. Back in the 1980s, my wife and I brought our s small family and lived out there. Very rural. We moved out of Hillsborough County. to get away from exactly what's happening to us right now. There's nothing we can do with that's already happened. with the Efferson property, the Cannon property. Well what I see going on now is the development that's gonna happen across the street
from us. We do live on a private road. And it's only a half a mile long. These gentlemen used to live on a private road, but the county came and bought it. and no one maintained our road. I have multiple trees on the fence line and the developers that promised us who bought that property that they would not kill any of our trees. Okay. Well, it's my understanding now that somebody else has bought that contract and somebody else is
gonna do it, so I was wondering if they were going to be able to honor that contract. Another thing too is the developers that are going to develop the property across the street from us were a four-lane the new Kenton Road supposed to go, is going to be elevated three feet. Now we live At the bottom it's not much of a hill, but there is an incline in the property value. I mean uh yes, the evaluation evaluation's in the The water does come down into
our property. So we got three feet coming on our east side. You got the Fowser property down on the other end of Kenton. going to be elevated when they develop their property. and you got property being developed now on Tyndall and close to Tyndall. So what you're basically doing is you're pushing all that water into a bowl which is going to affect Jennifer These gentlemen
here, everybody that lives on that road. And that could mean that we may have to get flood insurance. Right now we don't have to have flood insurance. And that could cost us the value of our property. We've been through multiple hurricanes. I have never never seen the damage that these gentlemen have gone through on their property. King Lake has never Flooded
like that. So I'm just thinking where is this water gonna go when you elevate The surroundings. Of our property.
I hope you all uh just take in consideration that the people that are building these things don't live here. They don't care. The Planning Commission is supposed to look out for the people that live here, not just for the people that are trying to build there. So if your engineers can do something to make it look make it more livable than Passable. Talk about the traffic. One second. Coming down Elam the other day, I was turning on our private road.
I had to make a left hand turn. There's a golf cart track on the on the side of the road. Cars are passing me on the golf cart track. I'm going on a private road. I want to put up a game. Thank you for your time.
Thank you.
So the next person I have on my list is Christy Zimmerman. Zimmerman? Zimmer. Yeah.
You would think by now, you would
Good afternoon gentlemen. It's so good to see you. First of all I wanna say thank you. Thank you for volunteering your time to be planning commissioners. Some of you were on payroll, some of you were not. You take away from your businesses, your v personal lives to be here and do these decisions and it's not always easy. And you do get a lot of crap thrown at you, threatening lawsuits and such. So I just want to take the minute and say thank you for your time. We appreciate you, believe it or not. Hearing these people talking about you don't see what the long term impact is.
Hearing what they're saying about and you may not realize the long-term impact of what you're approving and what you're hoping they're going to actually follow through and do with. Let me give you a couple examples. Connerton, been there wow, been growing for a while. Not just the storm's flood air and cutoff now, the rain we had yesterday, which was just minutes, flooded air and cut off again. During the storms and the big time flooding, the tractors never stopped out there. They're piling up dirt. They're creating more problems
and the flooding is not gonna get in is not gonna end. It's gonna get worse for those commute those people who have lived there for many decades. I know many of 'em. The other one is the project at the corner of Call Your Parkway in fifty-four, the shopping center where Publix is now. The deal was, okay, it was a horse farm, Woodsby Farm. You're gonna build this to look like a horse farm and they put topiaries out there that were required as per the plan. It looks nothing like a horse farm now. The topiaries
have been long gone. Nobody's followed through. Nobody polices these projects. Nobody makes them do what they say they're going to do. You pass it, but where's the the follow up? Where's the the authority that says you're not doing what you're supposed to be doing in these communities that we approved because it's not happening. And we the people out here are having to bear that brunt. Thank you.
Thank you. So the next one on the list is Kim Briarly and I just want to make sure she wants to speak on general public comment.
Kim Brierly, [address removed]. Yeah. I'd like to start by thanking the people who let me know about the meeting since I wasn't noticed of the meeting and I have a little bit of problem being noticed of things that are going on like right near me. So thank you to those who let me know. Um I'm gonna piggyback on a lot of the things that were said and then I'll speak again later as well. But um Every
time something gets built in the general area of my house, it's built up several more feet than it was and Like the fishbowl scenario was perfect. I keep saying I'm at the bottom of a valley because We've had storms before and nothing impacted my property like what we just had. With Helene and Milton and it I've never seen anything like it. And I just I can't imagine
if we lose everything. We have flood insurance that doesn't get you your things back. It gives you what somebody feels like your things were worth and I don't want to go through that. I'd like to have everything slowed down until we can actually figure out what's gonna be good for the county and what's actually gonna Push out the citizens who love this county. and make them move somewhere else when they don't want to. They want to stay where they bought and love. And so I'll
speak again later, but thank you. I appreciate it. Thank you.
Okay, so the last one I have signed up for general public comment is Michael Polterek.
And we did give Michael extra time as requested yesterday.
Thank you, sir. Michael Plottoric. [address removed], but I'm representing the Pasco Connected City Residents Group. Oh, perfect. Thank you, young lady. So I'd like to talk about the comprehensive plan for the Connected City, but before I do that I would like to point out all of our friends and neighbors and family, East County and West County, that were flooded out and some are still flooded out and have still not made it back to their homes. They
are in our thoughts and prayers, and we're not going to forget about it. We all need to stand up and keep that as a hot issue going forward so that we can provide accountability to not just future residents, but the current residents. Second item is I'd like to thank you gentlemen because I do not envy your position You guys have to balance a lot of things. on your table, on your plate. And I do not envy your positions and I do appreciate all of
you for trying to work with us and find the best for current and future residents as we balance these things out.
What I'd like to touch on is where we're currently at with the Connected City, its development. How it has developed and what was promised to the residents and the future residents years ago. The the group that I'm representing, by the way, is now six hundred and eighty-one members as of ten minutes ago. And I'd like to thank a bunch of our neighbors for showing up and speaking today about these issues. There's a lot of individuals that didn't know today's meeting was
gonna happen and um
I promise we're going to continue to push forward for proactive ways to meet the needs of all of our residents. For those at home that don't know, the Connected City was started in twenty fifteen with a Senate bill. Part of this Senate bill With the basis of it being a pilot program for the state in coordination with Metro Developments, the Connected City was going to be established as a pilot program. The oversight for the project was going to be pushed or given to local
authority because of the level of experience and knowledge of local authority to oversee the project. That's kind of important as we go forward here. In 2018, I believe it was, the Master Plan for the Connected City, I believe that's the year that it was published and given national acclaim and won its awards for how amazing of an opportunity this was gonna be to develop in Pasco County.
This is an overhead SPA zone map. You gentlemen know there's five districts, the Northern and Southern Innovation Zones, Community Hub, the Urban Core, and then the Business District.
I'd like to give some credit to Metro Developments because the Southern Innovation Zone and the Northern Innovation Zone primarily are housing and they've done a beautiful job. There's been some hiccups. We've found some roads that they forgot, through roads that they forgot to build. I don't think that was a necessarily a metro developments issue, maybe some accountability issue. May some uh oversight that we were missing in those projects, i.e. Kenton
Road that was supposed to go through to Overpass prior to any developments on the existing Kenton Road. A number of items in the master plan include putting people first, healthier lifestyles, sustainable living, local healthy food as the young lady before mentioned, outdoor areas, vibrant open-air meeting places for the community, recreational locations for the community hub.
This is straight out of the master plan, and it highlights some of what the young lady before was speaking about with community gardens, farmers markets, open recreational areas. Large open areas where the community and its developments, all of its residents, can come together and meet and live life together outside of just walking in. into more pavement and non-permeable surp surfaces.
These are some of the pictures that were sold and marketed to us. And it looks like a bunch of happy people. It sounds great. We want to be there too with 'em. Uh some of the pictures from the marketing, the community gardens, the open areas, the recreational areas.
This is straight from the marketing for Mara. I'd like to highlight Miles of well maintained trails that connect residents with the great outdoors, the area around Maratha is known for bird watching and is home to beautiful native flora and fauna. This is the first example of where I'd like to start highlighting where we're missing the intended purpose and intent. Outside of Murata, across the street from it, is the Sand Hill Development. It's
already approved, it's already happening. There was one existing stand of timber, about twelve acres, and it was Century Live Oak. standing pine, and native citrus. This week. This is what it looks like. That's where the birds were. The amazing birds, flora and fauna. Every tree you see in the picture is being knocked down and burned so that we can make a ten acre storm pond. Not sure how necessarily all
of the purpose and intents are coming together. There's specifically with the pilot program, straight out of the master plan. It's supposed to highlight libraries, emergency services, law enforcement, etc. For our new fire chief.
We do not have a fire station designated for the quote hundred thousand people that Connected City are gonna bring in. The Connected City Fire Station is on the west side of I-75. And I can't imagine a fire station on the other side of the interstate in correlation with the San Antonio Fire Station and the east of Epperson Fire Station can accommodate emergency services inside the connected city with the density we're referring to. So there's no fire station on the table. It
is not in the master plan. This is what we were sold for the business district. These are some beautiful buildings for the growing high-tech, high paying jobs and businesses that we were hoping to bring in.
What's being marketed commercially right now is 75 logistics. It's gonna be 5.5 million square feet of industry and targeted distribution centers. Over two million square feet is going to be distribution centers. I'm not sure. How many people still haven't figured this out yet, but Amazon and every other distribution center is going to automated services? So if we're going to bring in employment in an EOD, the emergent the employment opportunity
district, we should be considering industries that are going to bring jobs with them and not eliminate the jobs while they're tying up the ground space.
In the same area, right down the street from it, in the middle of the connected city, we have a commercial ice rink on a two-lane dirt road. Not sure how this is responsible as far as our planning. Goes. Again, these are the districts and To highlight the Southern Innovation Zone, even though they've done a beautiful job, is a Centered with a private, fancy community pool. The northern innovation
zone is is primarily the Metro housing. fancy private community pool. We're not invited there, by the way. And the Employment District and the Urban Business Court. The not business core, the urban court. The urban core is important because if we dig into it a little bit This project received national acclaim in twenty eighteen. Two years later, Pasco County decided to
put a Multi-million dollar fleet operations center where we're supposed to have the high density. Biznes core, the urban core. This is where the coffee shops, the four-story buildings are going. This is how we spent our money in Pasco County. Two years after we're supposed to be rezoning and planning for the urban core. This is an overhead of what was built. The community hub is what's really on our
mind right now because it is specifically where the on-site gardening, farming, etc. is supposed to go, which includes a lot of recreational area and the outdoor space where the different developments for the hub can come together. I'm going to have to zoom through some of this, so I apologize. But this is where the civic, cultural, recreational, outdoor, and the gem, King Lake, which we've now figured out can't be included for public use, is supposed to be hubbed around.
The district park we were promised has been reallocated to the east side of Pasadena Hills, and from the heart of the Connected City, that's ten miles away. The items from the intent and purpose for this project were to get cars off the road. I'm not sure how many golf carts are gonna go ten point six miles to get to our district park. This is a picture of the future school and it includes sports programs, that's gonna be important. This must have been
a local designer because the Building right there looks like the hundred year storm already happened because it's got water on three sides of it. Division zero outlines what this was supposed to be about. Okay? The reason the school I wanted to highlight it is important is because Pasco County was Given the instructions, to not burden Pasco County residents with the expense of this pilot program.
The school is designed now, from what I understand, M Mr. Tanello, maybe you can help us, is now designed to be a charter school. I cannot find a charter school in Pasco County that has a full sports program. They can't afford the property and so they don't they can't afford the sports programs. They don't have it. So if we're going to charter out the school and the high school there that's supposed to serve the connected city, how are we supposed to do this without sports programs, without the recreational area, and without the
open spaces that are all supposed to go into the hub? Really quickly just to I will make this quick, I promise.
Can you help me young lady? I'll go right back to it.
People that actually
Yeah, just back, back, back. I'm sorry.
While she's getting there, the connected hub. Uh let's go back. Right there, stop. Thank you. Okay, so just so you gentlemen can be on the same page with me, this is the the community hub. Every red box is already packaged for developers or current housing. All of it, except for one parcel. The parcel on the top left were the gray stars on it. That's the last remaining parcel that
has not been already rezoned for purpose. And everything else is housing. We have not received any of the recreational or open air space. That's the last one left. It's gonna be a hot topic. I promise the people of the Connected City are very passionate about being given what they were promised when this came around. That's the overhead as we zoom in a little bit, that one parcel touches four different districts from the con connected
city. So we are asking you to please keep in mind with the community hub, we have not been given the recreational area, the open space, the outdoor pavilions, the civic centers, and this could all be incorporated. Our group would like to come forward. in the near future and presents an alternative development plan for that parcel, which includes one of the beautiful pavilions that Amy spoke had on her PowerPoint earlier. Can
I steal that picture by the way? Um Boardwalks to protect the three wetlands, the community gardens. We can we have a plan that would help restore the integrity of the project as a whole if you will work with us in trying to make the last piece of the pie work for the community. Thank you gentlemen for what you do. Thank you, gentlemen, for your time. Thank you for allowing me to go over and
We really appreciate you guys. Thanks for working with us.
Very well. Thanks, Paul.
Mm.
Liam, is there anybody else?
Those are last persons signed up in person for general public comment.
Okay.
Yeah, go ahead and come on up. And this just I know you c walked in late. This is just public comment for anything not on the agenda. If you're here to talk about anything on the agenda, you have to speak when the item comes up.
And then um give you a second. When you get up here I don't think you were here for the swearing in, so when you get to the podium I'll need you to uh
When you get to the podium I need you to raise your right hand and be sworn. Please.
Use for a form of the testimony you're about to give is true so helping God. Yeah.
And then please state your name and address.
Tanya Riddlesworth, [address removed].
Here we go. This is um I think gonna be the new slogan if we don't change something, if you can see here. disconnected city. We are no longer going to be the connected city. We will be the disconnected city unless something changes. You guys had a great plan or the state had a great plan. Metro had a great plan. I don't know who came up with it first. But um it was a great plan and I was there at the meetings ten years ago um before I bought my property. I was nervous about buying it went to those meetings, um I
was sold on this I this great concept, this idea that looks like it would be a fantastic place to raise my family. Um it is not turning out to what we thought it was gonna be. It's a lot of homes, a lot of apartments. Um you're building this double branch. Uh it doesn't look like it's going to be a great town center where we we're gonna wanna go. It looks like it's just gonna be distribution space. Um we don't know where the green space is gonna be, just like kind of everybody's kind of been saying here,
where's the green space? So we have Uh the Wesley Chapel District Park, we have a park in the villages of Pasadena Hills. Those are not in Connected City. So if that was what you guys had intended of doing was saying, well you've got these parks over here and over here, then that should have been told to us, not you're gonna have green space within the connected city. Um as you can see from the map that was just shown the particular parcel that we'll be discussed later is in the center of Connected City, would be a great spot to put a park.
Um I don't want to really speak too much on that because I know that's specific. Um but I also wanted to mention uh about the roads. Um there are a couple main roads, the Kenton Road and McKendry Road that are main three roads connecting the south part of Connected City with the northern part of Connected City. And currently there are still dirt roads with um no kind of Line timeline in sight of when those are gonna be fixed. I know Kenton, the developer is supposed to fix out when they
build the um the property uh app pearl there. But uh McKendry Road, there's nobody that's set up to pave that road. You've got a major double branch on the north side of the road connecting what will be a hospital on the south side of the road and a dirt road in between. And I guess until the residents decide to sell, which maybe is the intent, that road will remain a dirt road because you guys have decided you're gonna just leave it to the developers. to pave it when those residents
sell to developers, which we don't want to sell. I guess some people might, but there's many of us that don't want to sell. So is that going to remain a dirt road connecting these two major things? Um I just wanna mention there was a development a while back, I think it was a couple years ago. I don't know if you guys remember it on Hul Road, H-U-L-E. I don't know if you remember that development uh real quick, but Um at that time you guys did deny the rezoning the error because you said
the um road was subpar. the homes, I think it was like a hundred and six homes that were gonna be built next to a rural community did not go in line with the um vibe of the community and the agricultural type of properties there. Uh you guys actually voted to deny it, um to to not approve that rezoning. And so I think that, you know, that kind of mindset needs to be brought back here to the connected city and you know not approve things
that are not in line with the idea of the connected city, the green spaces, the libraries, the community. Um so let's just get back to that idea that You guys did approve a couple of years ago.
All right. Thank you, Tanya.
Thank you.
Okay. That's it.
Yeah, David, do you wanna say a few things?